Hit-Boy Surprises His Mom With a New House

Even with the depressed record industry, there's plenty of money to be made in hip-hop if you can figure out the system. Where an artist funnels that cash is up to them -- it could go toward the luxurious trappings that have defined parts of the genre since the late 1980s, or toward the community building that hip-hop has stood for since its inception. But sometimes, you just need to buy your mom a house, and that's exactly what Hit-Boy just did.

In a video recently uploaded to YouTube, the Fontana, Calif.-bred producer and rapper takes his mother and a group of family members and friends to tour an empty home, which the group presumably thinks Hit-Boy is thinking about purchasing. But as they move from the foyer into the kitchen, he congratulates his mother--the house has been purchased for her. As is to be expected, nearly everyone on screen is overjoyed; Hit-Boy calls it "a blessing, to say the least."

In September, he put out a five-song EP called Zoom, which featured contributions from Gizzle, Pusha T, Geeezy P and Quentin Miller, the Atlanta rapper best known for ghostwriting several Drake songs. He is probably best known for his production work for Kanye West and the rest of the superstar's extended families at G.O.O.D. Music and Roc Nation. His best-selling singles are "Clique," the Kanye West/Jay Z/Big Sean collaboration from Cruel Summer, "Drop the World," which paired Lil Wayne with Eminem for the first time and "N---as in Paris" from Watch the Throne.

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